Faded Beauty Quotes

#1. To see how pretty an old woman once was, it is not enough just to look at each feature; they must be translated.

Marcel Proust

#2. Fashion, after all, is magic and miracle ... intended to bestow proportion and beauty where both have been lost or faded with the years.

Charles James

#3. All the pain and fear from the past had faded away, replaced with love and a glimmering hope for tomorrow. Now she knew there had been beauty within God's plan all along.

Rachel Skatvold

#4. When was the last good kiss you had?

John Green

#5. Belief fails when it works not well indeed but is idle as a sleeping man ... Each virtuous deed is strong when it is grounded upon the solidity of belief.

John Wycliffe

#6. Money is much more exciting than anything it buys.

Mignon McLaughlin

#7. He knew that beauty faded quickly when embodied by selfishness,

Francine Rivers

#8. Demonstrate talent, said Grandmother often to me, and you will still be loved by a husband when beauty has faded.

Martine Leavitt

#9. In moments among my various agonies, I noticed the beauty that surrounded me, the wonder of things both small and large: the color of a desert flower that brushed against me on the trail or the grand sweep of the sky as the sun faded over the mountains.

Cheryl Strayed

#10. And you're sorry that the ephemeral beauty has faded so rapidly, so irretrievably, that it flashed so deceptively and pointlessly before your eyes
you're sorry, for you didn't even have time to fall in love ...

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#11. She was utterly unlike what she had been when he first saw her. Both morally and physically she had changed for the worse. [ ... ] He looked at her as a man looks at a faded flower he has gathered, with difficulty recognizing in it the beauty for which he picked and ruined it.

Leo Tolstoy

#12. Beauty is a paradox,
every joy must taste of pain,
every goodness bears a wound,
every faded memory stains the mind

Poeticmusings

#13. Why, in his life of frequent travel, had he never recognized the beauty of flight? The improbability of it. The sound of the engines faded, the airplane receding into blue until it was folded into silence and became a far-distant dot in the sky.

Emily St. John Mandel

#14. Against a wall a faded blonde woman - an exiled angel, the hints of beauty still lingering on her palewhite face - sits with blackoutlined eyes burning into the bar.

John Rechy

#15. We are graduating members from the class of we made it, not the faded echoes of voices crying out names will never hurt me. Of course they did. But our lives will ever always continue to be a balancing act that has less to do with pain and more to do with beauty.

Shane Koyczan

#16. Faded is my heart ...
Faded is my dream ...
Faded they may seem ...
Never I scream!

Larissa Qat

#17. The Earth is your Mother and Grandmother. When you walk on the Earth, you are making a prayer to her.

Burleigh Muten

#18. The flowers anew, returning seasons bring; but beauty faded has no second spring.

Ambrose Philips

#19. And once I knew a meditative rose That never raised its head from bowing down, Yet drew its inspiration from the stars. It bloomed and faded here beside the road, And, being a poet, wrote on empty air With fragrance all the beauty of its soul.

Henry Abbey

#20. The sky was a high, pale blue, like faded linen hung in the sun ... Under the alders were bluebells, dark blue, blue flowers hanging their little heads from the beauty of their blossoms.

Eloisa James

#21. Faded the flower and all its budded charms,Faded the sight of beauty from my eyes,Faded the shape of beauty from my arms,Faded the voice, warmth, whiteness, paradise!Vanishd unseasonably

John Keats

#22. If you are here unfaithfully with us, you're causing terrible damage.

Rumi

#23. She lived in happy solitude, and grew old, and never worried when her beauty faded, for in her reflection she always saw a free woman.

Leigh Bardugo

#24. He looked at her as a man might look at a faded flower he had plucked, in which it was difficult for him to trace the beauty that had made him pick and so destroy it

Leo Tolstoy

#25. Beauty itself soon fades, and when a woman has beauty and nothing else, well, it's like putting all the goods in the shop window, isn't it? And the moment she loses her good looks-poor creature! what is she? Just a mere bit of faded finery to be thrown aside.

Henry Arthur Jones